For 19 centuries, this aqueduct brought life-giving water to Segovia, Spain. It was constructed around 115 AD, under the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan, to channel water from the Rio Frio n…
The March 23, 1992, issue of Newsweek contained a letter from the Greenville County, S.C., Department of Social Services. It read like this:
Julie, my dear wife, showed me something recently that I share with you: A thought from what might happen when you get to heaven, assuming you are faithful until death.
Joe Delaney was a rising star running back with the Kansas City Chiefs National Football League team in 1983. Just 24, with two seasons behind him, he was destined for the NFL Hall of Fame.
He traveled Spain’s dusty roads on a broken down, scrawny nag named Rocinante. His rickety armor once belonged to his great-grandfather, but years of neglect had taken its toll.
The old man pulled up to the red light on his moped. In the next lane was a Ferrari convertible driven by a young man.
What does Jesus look like? Or perhaps we should ask, “Who does Jesus look like?”
The following was said of a man known in the community as a habitual liar: “I knew he was lying because his lips were moving!”
This needle will never get lost in a haystack. At 605 feet tall and 138 feet wide (at the top), Seattle’s iconic Space Needle is visible for miles, easily one of the world’s most recognizable …
I have been a substitute teacher since October 2017. I have recently been teaching health in middle school.
Christmas is over; a new year is here. What can each of us do to make a positive difference in 2021? Let’s offer everyone we see a gift!
We can now say that “hindsight is 2020.” That old saying simply meant that once something is past, we can understand it more clearly.
‘Twas the night before New Year’s, and all around town, the folks were astir, they could hardly calm down. The night club was buzzing as people poured in: “Gimme a good time, now let it begin!”
Not bad for a 20-year-old. But of course, Leonardo da Vinci was no ordinary young man.
From Readers Digest, April 2019, page 99, comes this story of new recruits arrive for basic training. They are lined up to get their first “military” haircut. One recruit recounts his story li…
She never said, “Let them eat cake!” but her extravagant lifestyle and detachment from French commoners led to Marie Antoinette’s guillotining in 1793.
He got notice that he had been fired from the calendar factory. He could not believe it!
The year was 1918. Elderly peddler Charles Wilden lived in a sod house and sold foot scrapers. A poor man, what did he have to be thankful for?
On Thanksgiving Day, families all over America sit down to dinner at the same time — halftime.
The zoo’s gorilla died. Until they could find another ape to replace him, the zoo hired a mime to dress up like a gorilla and perform apelike antics.
Some people imagine God as an angry, strict judge who’s ready to pounce on anyone who does wrong, perhaps even eager to banish sinful folks to hell.
A fishing boat capsized off the Florida coast. The tourist who had rented the boat was an excellent swimmer, could easily have swam to shore, yet he held tightly to the overturned boat.
It was about a month ago that I first noticed there were no Trump political ads on any of the local television stations. We were inundated with Biden ads, but none for Trump!
Miserable, impoverished and unappreciated, he died over the course of two days at 37 years old from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
She came home late from the ladies meeting at the church building. Opening the door to her bedroom, she sees four legs sticking out from under the blankets.
